International Dealer News IDN 117 Feb/Mar 2014 | Page 24

PRODUCT NEWS

Bike HUD motorcycle
heads-up display
BIKE HUD is a new motorcycle heads-up display,
brought to market by UK business Bike Systems, that
shows speed, engine revs, gear selection, turn
indicators and more using graphics, colour and sound
on a display mounted in the rider’s helmet. Designed
to be fitted to any motorcycle, the in-helmet display fits
full-face and most flip-front helmets.
“Bike HUD is intended to work in the rider’s
peripheral field of view and make riding safer,” said
Bike System’s Managing Director Dave Vout. “In a high
pressure environment an average person can only
absorb three sets of information at any one time. Bike
HUD typically shows three main data sets, for example
speed, gear and engine revs.
“Bike HUD’s display and alerts provide the rider with
important information without causing a distraction
from the road and traffic conditions. Of course, if the
rider wants to read the numbers on the display he or
she can; the optics place the image at infinity so there
is no need to re-focus when reading the display.”
Bike HUD offers three riding modes:
commuting/leisure riding, touring and track day racing.
Commuting mode shows gear selection, indicators,
speed and engine speed, while touring mode adds GPS
coordinates and mileage countdown. In track day
mode, Bike HUD tells the rider if the last lap was faster
or slower than the preceding one – it also gives
faster/slower indication for user-defined sectors of the
track.
When a GPS navigator app is installed on a
smartphone, it can be configured to work with the Bike
HUD heads-up display. Once connected, via Bluetooth,
it can work in miles and yards or kilometres and metres
depending on location. The overall route and overall
progress is displayed, together with the ability to
change route, taking in additional points of interest
along the way.
If the rider is already a Bike HUD owner, he or she
can get this sooner on the Bike HUD Tester Scheme,
which is free to join.
An additional feature offered on Bike HUD as a
monthly subscription is the ‘Bike Systems Safety’, which
alerts users to the location of roadside safety cameras.
More than 38 countries will be supported by the
system, which will be updated on a monthly basis to
ensure all fixed, temporary, red-light and mobile

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cameras are accounted for. It
will also provide speed
sensitive alerts; the faster the
rider is travelling the earl